New firefighter completes training, to attend academy with others

Monday

Apr 7, 2014 at 12:01 AM

MIDDLEBORO — Newly appointed firefighter William T. Lieb, has just completed his forty-hour class for public fire and life safety educator with the Fire Department. The department has been educating K- 4th graders in the school system since 1992 when the program started under the late Chief Carl Reed. Firefighters attend seminars during the year to keep up their qualifications, and to bring back any changes that might be instituted in the program. Along with the regular classes in the schools, they accept special requests from local groups. The educators also have a program that is specially designed for the elderly.

MIDDLEBORO — Newly appointed firefighter William T. Lieb, has just completed his forty-hour class for public fire and life safety educator with the Fire Department. The department has been educating K- 4th graders in the school system since 1992 when the program started under the late Chief Carl Reed. Firefighters attend seminars during the year to keep up their qualifications, and to bring back any changes that might be instituted in the program. Along with the regular classes in the schools, they accept special requests from local groups. The educators also have a program that is specially designed for the elderly.

Firefighter Lieb, along with Thomas Melucci and Jason Myers, will be attending the Massachusetts Fire Academy starting March 24, and continuing for the next 12 weeks. There they will go through extensive training and testing, including drills in live burns, gas fires, car fires to water rescues and every aspect of the job. They are scheduled to graduate in June as full-time professional firefighters.